Saturday, May 30, 2015

Levin – Is 3 Years Enough?

Disgraced educator, and previous deputy education minister Ben Levin, was sentenced to 3 years in jail. His crimes have been well documented. Possession of child porn, creating (written) child pornography and counselling someone to inflict a sexual act on a child.

Given that he only received 3 years, the Sun’s piece back on April 13 poses a very good question. How sure are we that what Levin claims were “just fantasies”, stayed as fantasies? How certain can we be that it all existed only in his mind?

The piece makes a very good point that we are taking Levin at his word. He claims that his online debauchery was solely fantasy, and never made it into reality. Those fantasies included bondage, rape and inflicting pain on young children. (more...)